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The Nurturing Programs are Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed programs that involve the entire family. The Nurturing Program Research web site has been created to support your interest in knowing and understanding the decades of research that support the effectiveness of the Nurturing Programs.

The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered trauma-informed initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.

The long term goals are to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors.

Blend Nurturing Parenting with the uniqueness of LGBT Families. Six Sessions that Empower Parents and Professionals.

Major Goals for Teaching and Understanding the Parenting Traditions of LGBT Families are to help LGBT parents connect with each other and reconnect with themselves and their children for a meaningful progression to equity, dignity, and respect in a society that often strays from its commitment to establish equality for all people.

To help professionals advance the development of LGBT par... Read More »

To Be Released July 27, 2016 (English versions available at this time)

Plus updated demographic questions for AAPI 2.1 and NSCS 3.0

The six new NSCS inventories include: Parents & their Children Birth to Five Teen Parents/Young Parents & their Families Families in Nurturing Skills Programs. Prenatal Families Parents & their Adolescents Parents & their School-Age Children

Major Goals for Teaching and Understanding the Parenting Traditions of LGBT Families are to help LGBT parents connect with each other and reconnect with themselves and their children for a meaningful progression to equity, dignity, and respect in a society that often strays from its commitment to establish equality for all people.

To help professionals advance the development of LGBT parenting skills by integrating contemporary con... Read More »

The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered trauma-informed initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.

The long term goals are to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors.

IB3 is now in year 3 of the demonstration. We appreciate another opportunity to review growth and progress and to enumerate ongoing challenges with the waiver implementation.

This report provides a comprehensive review of implementation activities across each year of the demonstration in the evaluation section of this report. As we end this reporting period, there are currently 1,255 children referred to the demonstration and there is an even distribution of those cases across intervention and compari... Read More »

Family Links delivers innovative, high quality training in the Nurturing Programme to health and social care services, third sector organisations, schools and universities.

Family Links partners with Canterbury Christ Church University to pioneer an innovative Postgraduate Certificate in Social and Emotional Learning for teachers.

The UK’s leading emotional health charity, Family Links, has announced a new partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University to offer the UK’s first Postgraduate Certificate in Social and Emotional Learning.

Nurturing Parenting Programs have over 30 years of effectiveness. Numerous Research Findings, Studies and Articles are available here. Family Development Resources has been providing cost-effective, validated approaches to help treat and prevent child abuse and neglect for over 30 years.

Families learn new attitudes and skills that reduce dysfunction in families, with follow-up studies indicating lo... Read More »

Our vision is to cultivate a culture of nurturing through the implementation of community-based, family focused education in the philosophy and practices of nurturing.

Education in nurturing is a proven philosophy and program that can be taught and practiced in our families, in our schools, in our businesses, in our places of worship and in all the branches and levels of governments worldwide... Learn More

1. Thirty Nurturing Programs: Select the Right Program for your Families

Family Development is committed to meeting the unique needs of families. To this end, approximately 30 programs or program models are available that are designed to meet the family’s educational learning styles and abilities; the family’s culture and language; the ages of the children as well as the ages of the parents. The first step in implementing the Nurturing Parenting Programs is to select the right program(s) for the families you are serving.

What is very unique about the Nurturing Programs is the foundation of the teachings is based on the known practices of child maltreatment:

Inappropriate Expectations, Parental lack of Empathy, Strong Belief in the use of Corporal Punishment, Reversing Parent-Child Roles; and Oppressing Children's Power and Independence.

The Nurturing Programs are family-centered trauma-informed initiative based programs that, with partnership with other agencies, can work at changing all the family patterns that are contributing to maltreatment, including mental health issu... Read More »

Training aimed at preventing abuse, reducing number of children coming into foster care

In an effort to prevent more children from coming into the state foster care system, the Arkansas Department of Human Services Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is launching a program in March that teaches the fundamentals of becoming a more nurturing parent.

The program will be used to improve the parenting skills of those families who have already come into contact with child welfare system, but are not under court supervision ...Read More

The Nurturing Program for Young Parents and Their Families is referred to as a competency-based program.

Each lesson has identified competencies the parents need to learn in order for their parenting practices to improve.

Parents attend 16 group sessions each lasting 2 1/2 hours. Families can also receive individual home/parent sessions between the group sessions to ensure the knowledge and skills presented in the group sessions are being implemented in home...Learn More

8/4/2014 - Nurturing Parenting Program for Parents and their School-age Children 5 to 12 Years has been rated by the CEBC.

The following areas were rated by the CEBC: Parent Training Programs and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (Secondary) Programs.

Target Population: Families who have been reported to the child welfare system for child maltreatment including physical and emotional maltreatment in addition to child neglect; may be used as a court-ordered parenting program.

Have your reports reflect the accurate presentation of data that will impress your Board Members and Funders.

For a fee you will have the ability to create your own summary data tables.

Summary tables are useful in monitoring the success of your programs, reporting information to your funding sources, reviewing the levels of progress parents are making, and providing feedback to your staff for all their hard work

3/5/2014 - Ever wonder why some parents go to parent education classes and their children are still at risk?

Sometimes we assume the parent didn't participate fully but it could be they were not referred to the level of class to best meet their needs.

The Virginia State-Wide Parent Education Coalition (VSPEC) is a professional organization.

VSPEC is comprised of members in the public and private sectors who work with families and/or conduct parent education classes, has developed this Parent Education Toolkit to help you determine whether the classes meet the needs of the person you... Read More »